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Nothing that a US immigration lawyer can help with, unless they can somehow get their hands on your mom's Singapore police certificate. So just keep following up with the Singaporean authorities. Your mom will not get a visa unless she submits what the consulate requires.

USCIS will compare the wedding date listed on your marriage certificate vs the date of first US entry with the immigrant visa. If 1st US entry date is after your 2nd wedding anniversary, your wife and son will be entitled to 10-year green cards. If USCIS makes a mistake and sends 2-year GCs instead, file I-90 for free to get the GCs replaced due to USCIS error.

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Depending on the USCIS service center that the petition gets assigned to, an I-130 for a sibling of a USC could be processed in around 2 years or could take more than 10 years. Regardless of when the petition is processed, what really takes a long time for F4 (sibling of USC) visa cases is the wait time for visa number availability, which is currently 16+ years from petition filing date. The reason it takes so long is that there is a very, very long line of applicants for this visa type, but the number of F4 visas available per year are limited by US immigration law. Because the demand for F4 visas does not decrease, yet the annual quota set in law remains unchanged, the line and the resulting wait time gets longer every year. In the meantime, your siblings-in-law may apply for B2 tourist visas if they wish. If approved, they may travel to the US for short visits, even if there are petitions pending for them.

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A print-out of the CFO certificate is enough for the exit inspection at the airport. No need for the CFO stamp. And yes, it is possible to have CFO tele-counseling without visa on hand, but you will not get the certificate until after you submit a scan of the visa. I completed CFO in 2021 that way, but my counselor was annoyed that I booked the session without having my visa yet. They even suggested to re-schedule the call when they learned that my visa wasn't issued yet, but I pleaded for them to conduct the session anyway.

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Check under "Petitioner Documents" in this NVC checklist for civil documents -- https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-5-collect-financial-evidence-and-other-supporting-documents/step-7-collect-civil-documents.html

Yes. The petitioning sponsor must be in the US before or at the same time as the beneficiary's first US entry with immigrant visa.

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If your spouse is the beneficiary, then they are already counted under item 1.a. Leave 1.b blank as the form says "Do not count any household member more than once." Upload petitioner's divorce decree(s) under the additional documents section on the Civil Documents tab. Label the file(s) as petitioner's marriage termination document.

Please clarify -- are you a US citizen? In another thread, you said you are a USC. If so, your children's cases would not be F2A. They would be IR2 or F1, depending on the age of your children when you filed the I-130 for them or when you naturalized (if applicable).

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